VIDEO: Living with St. Paisios

Athanasios Rakovalis, physicist, writer and iconographer, spoke about his extraordinary experience of living with St. Paisios for twelve years on March 6, 2017 at the Open University of Katerini, Greece. This video features well-edited English subtitles.

Athanasios is known as the young man in the book The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios.

St. Paisios of Holy Mount Athos (†7/12/94) is perhaps the greatest and most revered saint of the Orthodox Church of our time. Thousands of people around the world have eponymously witnessed & reported first-hand miracles performed by the saint during his lifetime. The officially recorded and verified miracles performed by the saint after his repose at his resting place at the Monastery of St. John the Theologian (Souroti, Thessaloniki, Greece) have reached 5,000. St. Porphyrios of Kafsokalivia (†12/02/91), also a highly revered Orthodox saint, once said that St. Paisios was as great as St. Anthony the Great (†356 AD) and that “God shows saints of St. Paisios' greatness to the world every 400 years.”

See also
Elder Paisios’ Seven Tangerines Elder Paisios’ Seven Tangerines
Met. Nikolaos of Mesogaia
Elder Paisios’ Seven Tangerines Elder Paisios’ Seven Tangerines
Metropolitan Nikolaos of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki
Nobility, gentleness and refinement are among the elements of holiness. Elder Paisios neither spoke about wisdom, nor pronounced theological words, nor spoke about supernatural revelations. But he did fill the hearts of all pilgrims.
Closer Than My Own Father: Elder Paisios and His Spiritual Children, Part 2 Closer Than My Own Father: Elder Paisios and His Spiritual Children, Part 2
Ekaterina Stepanova
Closer Than My Own Father: Elder Paisios and His Spiritual Children, Part 2 Closer Than My Own Father: Elder Paisios and His Spiritual Children, Part 2
Ekaterina Stepanova
The path to Athos is open to men only. But in Greece there is a women’s monastery where they live according to strict Athonite rules and serve without electricity, by candlelight. This monastery, in the village of Souroti, was founded by Elder Paisios the Athonite, whose books have been so popular in the past few years in America and Russia. A correspondent of “Neskuchnii Sad” headed to Souroti to meet with people who remember Elder Paisios.
Two words on St. Paisios the Athonite Two words on St. Paisios the Athonite
Archimandrite Gregorios of Gregoriou
Two words on St. Paisios the Athonite St. Paisios the Athonite: The Comforter of Souls
+ June 29/July 12
Archimandrite Gregorios of Gregoriou
When I asked him about a difficult problem I’d encountered in confession, as a spiritual father, he told me: "Listen, father, when you become a spiritual father, you have to be prepared to go down into hell for those you confess. Otherwise, don’t bother. But what I have to say is that, if you go to hell, you’ll make it paradise, because you’ll have love." Amazing advice, that only a God-bearing person would be able to give.
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